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baboon's avatar

My suspicion is that the Afghanistan fiasco was the largest weapons and technology transfer in history - with the CCP and PLA being the ultimate beneficiary.

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Edwin's avatar

How much of that stuff went to Middle Eastern and African 'weapons bazaars?'

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

No one knows for sure. But I would really love a pair of those night vision goggles and a ballistic helmet!

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Edwin's avatar

I've got a PASGT helmet and an older ITT NQ AN/PVS-14.

https://i.imgur.com/SMqqPjb.jpg

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Nice.

I am looking at this: https://shootingsurplus.com/l-3-gen3-filmless-white-mil-spec-vyper-14/

When the subscribers start paying ;p

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Edwin's avatar

An excellent choice.

Best night vision combat shooter I ever saw used a single WP filminess PVS-14 mounted on a MICH helmet, and an old Laser Devices IR OTAL on a SBR AR-15. He said he preferred his Colt 9mm AR, but didn't bring it because the shoot didn't allow full auto. This guy was awesome beyond words, didn't use binocs because at 28 he still had excellent night adapted vision.

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Nancy's avatar

Until Ukraine.

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Edwin's avatar

Remember Obama's "flexibility" message to Putin. "After my last election."

They laundered billions then and Putin got Crimea for free!

The "State" is just returning to it's vomit, again and again.

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

As I keep trying to hammer here, this is all kabuki theater and coordinated. Putin was paid off years ago. He is simply playing his part, like all of the other whores.

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Stegiel's avatar

There is an end point. The New Feudalism will not use the present looting machine. It will have another. Civil War in US and Canada and consequently the cash flow to save the last two bastions of human freedom outside of Eurasia.

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Skip's avatar

Washington’s entire Sept 17, 1796 Fairwell to Office address “To the People of the United States” is full of real wisdom, e.g., in addition to the foresight of his excellent quotes on international relations included above he also warned against the creation of political parties for their potential destructiveness on the state of a nation. Worth reading. Here it is in Washington's words:

“I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, ... Let

me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you, in the most solemn

manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.

“This spirit ... in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest

rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the

spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which , in different ages

and countries, has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a most

horrid despotism ...

“... the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are

sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage

and restrain it.

“It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public

administration; it agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and

false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments,

occasionally, riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence

and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself,

through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and will of one

country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

“There is an opinion, that parties, in free countries, are useful checks upon

the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of

liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true; and in governments

of a monarchal cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor,

upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in

governments purely elective it is a spirit not to be encouraged. ...there

being constant danger of excess, the effects ought to be, by force of public

opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands

an uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of

warming, it should consume.”

G. WashingtonUnited States, Sept. 17, 1796

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

Please ask DHS and their ministry of truth scum about this: " “There is an opinion, that parties, in free countries, are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty."

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Skip's avatar

Smile, I kinda think that heavily armed DHS would not share the view that there’s any value in alternate views from official narratives. “Home Security” has become, or was from beginning, stop alternate views and threatening questions.

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Jimychanga's avatar

Need to renew my Free Assange bumper sticker. Amazing how the libs that loved him act like they never knew him now. Pathetic lemmings.

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R!CKYRANTS's avatar

#FreeAssange

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Hugh Petersen's avatar

It’s also wealth distribution and they are sapping the good old USA.

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David Veale's avatar

The more I look the more I see rackets and money laundering operations. A young coworker (graduated from university a couple years ago) still gets offers of free money from banks, under the guise of "student" loans. The banks don't care whether anyone defaults, because they're backed by the taxpayers. All they have to do is generate loans (thus sending education costs to the moon), and either collect exhorbitant interest rates or government reimbursement. It's a "can't lose" proposition.

Healthcare (especially programs like Medicare Part D) work much the same. So does the military industrial complex and various contractors.

Once the CBDC is implemented, they can just take it from us directly, and/or prevent us from doing anything to thwart their crimes.

And still my 2nd ammendment "brothers in arms" keep their AR15s safely stowed in the closet, waiting for a "real" crisis. Somehow I suspect they'd remain there even if we were invaded by aliens.

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Rob Dubya's avatar

Well given that laws have started to change around some parts of europe to allow the state to force you to accept refugees and even steal your house in order to house refugees it really is obvious how this next part of PSYOP -Were going to fuck you all so hard you'll wish you were dead already -22, is going to go down. I predict false flag tactical nuking of ukraine forcing the whole remaining population of Ukraine in to Europe. Then of course there will be millions upon millions of starving africans fleeing the famines that will have caused by the covid lockdowns and Climate change restrictions and airbourne aerosol spraying to cause droughts, but will be blamed squarly at the foot of global warming. It must be a shit time for dystopian authors, how the hell are they meant to trump reality.

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Andrea's avatar

Here’s my question: could the military ever turn on these governments?

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Spider25's avatar

Assange took Killery Rotten out of the 2016 election. They will never let this go ever. There are things worse than death and I think Supermax is one of those places. Godspeed Julian!

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Sandy's avatar

The first I heard of Assange was a late night current affairs program in Australia, which interviewed former members of the Wikileaks collective, who spoke about Assange secretly meeting with Mossad who gave him all those leaks. None of the "leaks" criticize Israel. These collective members resigned as one of the rules was no secrets from the others.

Assange's stepfather was mixed up in a cult called "The Family", where all the kids had their hair dyed blonde and were given acid, amongst who knows what other abuses. This cult was protected by the then Victorian premier, and took years to be exposed.

I don't take any notice of Assange. He is an Intelligence stooge, like so many, put there to distract you from the fact you are being robbed and slowly murdered!!

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2nd Smartest Guy in the World's avatar

No stooge gets that level of torture.

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